One issue: on dark backgrounds (e.g., my terminal) my lowercase "m"'s have a reddish tinge them, I suppose because the stems are thinner than my pixels. However, I did not observe this with ClearType -- any solutions?

Also, tried the Ubuntu preset in 99lcdfilter. Predictably, this one is more ClearType-like: less crisp/impressive, but also less apparent color fringing for white text on black backgrounds. Still, I never noticed any color fringing with ClearType, whereas I do notice some on the Ubuntu preset.

Finally, while fonts in the main Skype window and chat windows are fine, in the menus they are gigantic. I chalk this up to using precompiled 32-bit Qt emulation libraries inducing some incompatibility._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

Another issue, in wiki suggested to set -cleartype flag, however in cairo and fontconfig ebuilds +cleartype IUSE is set. I think, it's better to make flag optional? And vice versa set +lcdfilter as it makes sense._________________http://www.funtoo.org

Are you sure you're looking at the right overlay? I'm using fontconfig, libXft and poppler from the Gentoo tree, as they are most up-to-date; cairo is from infinality. None of these ebuilds have either the lcdfilter or cleartype USE flags. The only ebuild that should/needs to have lcdfilter enabled is freetype from infinality (required by the infinality cairo ebuild)._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

Next issue, libXft-2.3.1 has no IUSE, lcdfilter is supposed to be there, no one bother about +cleartype, which is set in older revisions of libXft.

Fixed the wiki.

angry_vincent wrote:

Another issue, in wiki suggested to set -cleartype flag, however in cairo and fontconfig ebuilds +cleartype IUSE is set. I think, it's better to make flag optional? And vice versa set +lcdfilter as it makes sense.

Ok, I'll change that.

angry_vincent wrote:

app-text/poppler included in overlay but it's outdated, any particular reason?

I have added the ebuilds from MeisterP's infinality-overlay to the betagarden overlay (this is the official dev playground) for more exposure. I will discuss with the relevant package maintainers on getting these into the official tree._________________"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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I have taken over maintainership of cairo, so the necessary patches have been applied to 1.10.2-r3 and 1.12.2-r2 in the official portage tree. So you can drop cairo from your overlays.

Next I want to apply the freetype patches, but I will probably "hide" them behind an "infinality" useflag, so as not to upset dev and users who prefer to keep vanilla freetype. Obviously I also will add fontconfig-infinality then, and MeisterP's eselect module. But first I would like to impove the latter, so users don't need to edit /etc/env.d/99lcdfilter by hand._________________"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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Additional - after following instruction in http://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/pages something strange happened to my system. All fonts that was not supposed to be antialiased (like proggy, terminus etc) dissappeared from my system and were replaced by other fonts. (I cannot event find them in the font list)
my eselect fontconfig list: http://bpaste.net/show/37306/

2) Then I experimented with combinations of the "eselect infinality" setting and the style in /etc/env.d/99lcdfilter. My best combination so far is "Linux" eselect plus the "infinality" style. You may have to manually restart some applications (or log out/back in) in order to see the changes._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

Since they are each run-time, not build-time, dependencies of one another, it's okay to instruct your package manager to ignore one of the dependencies to break the cycle and install them one by one . I use Paludis, so invoked

2) Do you know how can I fix my not antialiased fonts (the problem is described in my previous post)?

I bet the fonts are just there, just not enabled. Your fontconfig list shows terminus.conf is there, but not activated. I think if you successfully install MeisterP's package set, and select "linux" under "eselect infinality", the fonts will come back. If not, you can try reinstalling the fonts.